The Voice from Below | PhD Workshop CEFRES-EHESS

The “Voice from Below” – In the Face of Repression and Arbitrary State Violence

A Doctoral Workshop organized within a cooperation agreement between the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences sociales (EHESS), CEFRES, Charles University and the Czech Academy of Sciences

Date: 22 November 2024
Location: CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1 (and online, to connect, please write to cefres@cefres.cz)
Language: English

Read the thesis of the Workshop here.

Program

9:45 | Key-note speeches

Alain BLUM (CERCEC, EHESS) et Dinah RIBARD (CRH, EHESS)

10h45-11h45 | Societies Facing Regime Changes

Isabelle LINAIS-AOULOVA (Sciences Po/EPHE) :  “A Penniless hardworker” (Mehnatkash va kambaghal) – Disenfranchised citizens. reclaiming their voting rights in early Soviet Tajikistan (1920s)
Niya METODIEVA (CERCEC EHESS) : Resistance as a struggle for belonging to the Bulgarian postwar society: young people’s traces as voices as from below? (1944-1946)

11:45-12:00 Coffee Break

 12:00-13:00 | Czechoslovakia in the 1970s and 1980s

Anastasia MAMAEVA (CEFRES – Sorbonne University) : How to Make Baroque Horror Films under Czechoslovak Normalization: Juraj Herz’s Testimony
Václav SKOŘEPA (Faculty of Arts, Charles University) : Self-government as the megaphone of the voice from below: How Czech dissidents thought about future democracy towards the end of Communist Czechoslovakia

13h00-14h00 | Lunch

14h00-15:00 | The 1980s in the “Eastern Block”

Alexandra KOROLEVA (Sciences po) : Historical-patriotic Association “Pamyat” in Akademgorodok and Soviet Scientists: How Struggle for Sobriety Turned into Russian Nationalism in the 1980s
Olha NORBA (Slovak Academy of Sciences) : Social critique in the Slovak literature of the grey zone during the fading state socialism as a catalyst of the system change in 1989

15h00-15h15 | Coffee Break

15:15-16:45 | Contemporary Conflicts

Seema SRIDHAR (CEFRES / CEU): Un-silencing Voices from Afghanistan: Poetry and Agency in Exile
Anabela ZIGOVA (SIRICE, University Paris 1 – associated at CEFRES) : Silent screams: The Killing of a Journalist, and Culture in Slovakia (2018 – 2024)
Emina ZOLETIĆ (University of Warsaw) : Diasporic perspectives on Gaza’s conflict responses: Generation from Below

 16:45-17:00 | Tea time

 17:00-18:00 General Discussion and Conclusion of the Workshop

Alain BLUM (CERCEC, EHESS) et Dinah RIBARD (CRH, EHESS)